Here’s a hot topic for ­Andrew Marr to highlight in his TV review of the ­papers today...our exclusive pictures of him fondling a woman in the street.

They show the married host of Sunday morning’s ­Andrew Marr Show getting frisky with a mystery woman, even putting his hand inside the back of her jeans during their drink-fuelled night out.

These embarrassing images could leave the tough political journalist facing a grilling of his own from long-suffering wife Jackie, who forgave the unlikely lothario last year when he had an affair and went to court to stop the press reporting it.

Innocent peck? Marr claims he was just saying goodbye to a colleague

His latest indiscretion took place outside a Central London nightclub in the early hours yesterday. Marr, 53, his companion and two other friends spent the night knocking back drinks in The Bar in Soho.

At about 2.30am Marr and the woman decided to nip outside. Another punter who was in the bar said: “Andrew stood next to me with this woman. There were a couple of others with them and they were all pretty merry.

“A bit later I was chatting to the bouncer and Andrew and the woman wandered past. They kept nipping in and out over the next hour or so, with him becoming increasingly unsteady on his feet each time.

“Then at about 2.30am they came out one last time. I could tell he was really drunk, because he was stumbling around.

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“I spotted them hugging and kissing up against the fence. They were there for a few minutes. Eventually they went back into the bar and stayed until closing time before leaving together.

“I couldn’t believe the way he was carrying on. You’d have thought he was old enough to know better.”

Marr and journalist Jackie, 57, have been married for 25 years and have a son and two daughters.

In April 2011 he admitted having an affair with another female journalist eight years earlier. He believed he had fathered her child and took out a legal injunction banning reports of the fling, but later abandoned the action. DNA tests later showed he was not the father after all.

Ironic: Andrew Marr reviews the news on his TV show (Image: BBC)

Asked about the pictures yesterday, Marr said: “It was an innocent goodbye to my series producer.”

When he was asked why he had put his hand down her trousers, Marr laughed and ­added: “I can’t remember that.”